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The GMC Caballero, like the Sprint that had previously been GMC's version of the car-based truck during the previous two generations of the A/G-body platform, paralleled the development of the fifth-generation El Camino, and like the El Camino, was discontinued at the end of the 1987 model year.
Even though the El Camino was discontinued after 1987, there have been several proposals to resurrect the car-truck hybrid over the years. The first officially sanctioned one was this concept car, where the American Sunroof Company (now known as American Specialty Cars), a company that in addition to making sunroofs and convertible tops, also makes low-volume customized and concept cars, converted a Lumina Z34 coupe into an El Camino-like vehicle, hollowing out the back seats and trunk of the Lumina to make room for a custom-fabricated small truck bed that incorporated the rear window and curved bed front section taken from a donor fifth-generation El Camino.
Reactions to this concept were somewhat mixed, as many enthusiasts looked askance at a front-drive vehicle, especially one that was based on a rather mediocre coupe & sedan, and the proposal never made it past this concept car stage.
The next El Camino concept produced by GM was made in 1995, and represented a return to the roots of the earliest El Caminos, being based on a modified full-size (Caprice) station wagon platform. This concept car also received the same modifications that the 1994-96 Impala SS sports variation of the Caprice did (police package suspension, brakes, and cooling; 17" wheels, a detuned version of the LT1 5.7L V-8 used in the Corvette, Camaro Z28, and Firebird Formula & Trans Am, a deluxe bucket seat interior, and special exterior trim.) Unlike the Lumina-derived concept from a few years earlier, this Caprice-based El Camino received favorable reviews as it made the rounds of the auto show & press circuits in 1995-96, and reports are that it would have entered production in 1997, had GM management not decided to terminate all full-size RWD passenger car production at the end of the 1996 model year in order to re-purpose the factory space to increase truck and SUV production.